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    Waffenamt (WaA) was the German Army Weapons Agency. It was the centre for research and development of the Weimar Republic and later the Third Reich for...
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    German control. The Waffenamt acceptance mark (WaA84) was added in 1945 and only those 920 pistols produced that year were ever Waffenamt-marked. It is not...
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    the Panzerkampfwagen VIII (Maus). The basic design was ordered by the Waffenamt as a parallel development to the Porsche Maus in June 1943. It was the...
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    "Pistole M 37 Kal. 7.65" and the FEG code "jhv" and date, along with the Waffenamt markings. Though it was produced under more strain due to the rate by...
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  • Czechoslovakia P.38 Pistol VG 2 Rifle The Waffenamt inspector at Spreewerk Grottau was assigned code WaA88. The Waffenamt stamp applied to Spreewerk produced...
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    began the development of a large tank design in January 1937 when the Waffenamt requested Henschel to develop a Durchbruchwagen ("breakthrough vehicle")...
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  • MCLOS) developed during World War II by Ruhrstahl AG in 1943, after the Waffenamt (Army Ordnance Board) placed an urgent order for anti-tank missiles, this...
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  • other machine guns, the German arms industry under the guidance of the Waffenamt (German Army Weapons Agency) negotiated and worked out complex royalties...
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    sweeping on towards Warsaw. On 15 April 1940, Leeb became Chief of the Waffenamt (Army Ordnance Weapons Depot) at the War Ministry in Berlin (15 April...
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    General of the Artillery and served from 1926 to 1929 as chief of the Waffenamt. Ludwig was born on 26 March 1871 in Sangerhausen. Ludwig joined the Lower...
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    had big potential to become an effective tank destroyer, according to Waffenamt and OKH delegates who attended its trials. During tests, it proved to...
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    Mareșal tank destroyer. In May 1944, Lieutenant-Colonel Ventz from the Waffenamt acknowledged that the Hetzer had followed the Romanian design. German-led...
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    main advantage of the new weapon was a reduced manufacturing time, the Waffenamt (German Army Weapons Agency) assumed 60% of that of the MG 42. In contrast...
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    about 20 days. Gerät Nr. VII: Versuchs-Gerät for 041. Currently with the Waffenamt for test firing and obtaining firing table data. It is not currently operational...
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    flaming gasoline can at the end of a four-meter-long (13 ft) pole. In 1933, Waffenamt Prüfwesen (Wa Prüf, English: "Weapons Testing") 1/1, under the Heereswaffenamt...
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  • 1990), New Zealand rugby union player Wa (unit), a Thai unit of length Waffenamt, a research and development agency of Nazi Germany Wales Airport (Alaska)...
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  • Between 1934 and the adoption of the final MG 34 production version, the Waffenamt (German Army Weapons Agency) realized the MG 34 Einheitsmaschinengewehr...
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    during World War II Ranks and insignia of the German Army (1935–1945) Waffenamt War crimes of the Wehrmacht The official dissolution of the Wehrmacht...
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    engineers, manufacturers and military procurement officials, including the Waffenamt (Army Weapons Department), were able to inspect and study captured T-34...
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    Battle of Stalingrad, in September 1942 the Wehrmacht's arms bureau, the Waffenamt, called for a new standard for heavy assault guns: 100 mm of armor to...
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    produced gun parts, including Mauser Karabiner 98k rifle bolts. MAN's Waffenamt code was WaA53, and ordnance code was "coc". The MAN works in Augsburg...
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  • A heavy Panzerjäger (tank destroyer) was ordered to be built by the Waffenamt in 1941. The vehicle was originally intended to be a self propelled assault...
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  • Portuguese crest just forward of the safety mechanism in combination with Waffenamt (WaA) markings. The m/942 remained in service with Portuguese Army into...
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    of the VK 13.01 fits two people on turret. However, in July 1940, the Waffenamt connected the Czech firms Škoda and Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik...
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    1-inch thick (25 mm) appliqué armor plates were fitted in front of them. A Waffenamt-Prüfwesen 1 report estimated that with the M4 angled 30 degrees sideways...
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    repair company, Dürkoppwerke AG employed 1,665 people in 1892; it used Waffenamt code "WaA547" from 1938 to 1939 as the Dürkopp-Werke, and merged with...
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    for rearline or police units and are marked with their corresponding Waffenamt stamp. Postwar, the West German Landespolizei made use of Model Bs until...
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    penetrated from 800 m and the mantlet from 1500 m at 30° sideward angle. A Waffenamt-Prüfwesen 1 report estimated that with the T-34 angled 30 degrees sidewards...
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    as an alternative to the Maybach Olvar-B semi-automatic gearbox, but Waffenamt research and development department Wa Prüf 6 found that it offered inferior...
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  • Czechoslovak stampings, and instead only bore standard army proof marks and Waffenamt inspection codes. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Romanian Army...
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